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FullPage Capture vs Awesome Screenshot

Short answer: FullPage Capture is built for the capture itself: web apps and dashboards unrolled, sticky headers once, PDF files and very long pages handled, PDFs with page breaks and links, all free, with no account, no caps and zero network requests. Awesome Screenshot is a screen recorder with a cloud account that also takes screenshots, caps its free plan at 100 cloud screenshots, and charges Basic $5 a month and Professional $6 a month billed yearly ($6 and $8 billed monthly). Figures from the store listings, September 27, 2026.

Awesome Screenshot is a screen recorder first, with a cloud account, and a screenshot tool second. FullPage Capture is a full page screenshot tool and nothing else, which is why the capture is better where it matters: on the pages a general tool gets wrong. And everything stays on your machine. Here is the side-by-side, every figure sourced.

Updated September 27, 2026By the FullPage Capture team, the people who build the extension

Who is writing this. We make FullPage Capture, and this page is our case for it. Every figure about another extension is taken from its Chrome Web Store listing or its own pricing page as they read on September 27, 2026, so you can check each one. If something has changed since, tell us and we will correct it. Who we are.

Why FullPage Capture over Awesome Screenshot

Complete captures of complex pages. Panels that scroll inside the page, sticky headers once, images that load on scroll, PDF files open in Chrome, very long pages in parts: handled by design. Awesome Screenshot's listing describes full page, selected area, visible part and desktop capture and does not claim any of these.
No caps, no account, no cloud. Awesome Screenshot's free plan caps cloud storage at 100 screenshots and 20 recordings and wants an account to share. FullPage Capture has no limits and needs no account for the free version.
Your captures stay yours. Its store declaration says it handles website content, which follows from storing captures for you. FullPage Capture declares no data collection and makes zero network requests.
Real PDFs. One long page or Letter, Legal and A4 with page breaks between lines and clickable links, free; a searchable text layer in Pro. Awesome Screenshot's listing says “download screenshot as PDF” and no more.
An editor built for screenshots: arrows, shapes, text, highlight, numbered badges, blur and pixelate, crop to exact pixel sizes, layers and undo, free to use. On Awesome Screenshot's pricing page the full annotation tools are on the paid plans.
A quarter of the size (2.46 MiB against 9.15 MiB), because there is no recorder or cloud client inside.

Install FullPage Capture free and try it on this page. No account, no cloud, nothing uploaded.

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Built for the pages that break other extensions

Any extension can stitch a plain article. The difference shows on real pages, and it comes from how the capture is made:

Apps that scroll inside a panel. Gmail, Notion, Trello, Jira, dashboards: FullPage Capture finds the element that really scrolls, captures the whole window once and then unrolls only that panel, so the result is the app, complete.
Sticky headers, cookie bars and chat bubbles once. Photographed at the top, then hidden while the rest scrolls past, instead of repeating on every screen or covering the text.
Images that load on scroll are waited for, screen by screen, so nothing comes out grey; a slow page can be given more time in the options.
Embedded frames and PDF files. A document viewer inside the page is captured on its own, and a PDF opened in Chrome is rendered page by page into one image.
Very long pages do not fail silently. Beyond Chrome's canvas limit the capture is saved as numbered parts, and the editor puts them back together whenever the whole still fits.
Dark pages stay dark, on their own background, not on white.
Retina and high-DPI captures keep the full pixel density, so text stays sharp when zoomed.

Side by side

	Awesome Screenshot	FullPage Capture
Inner scrollers and frames	Not stated on the listing	Yes
Sticky headers handled	Not stated on the listing	Captured once
PDF files opened in Chrome	Not stated on the listing	Yes
PDF export	Download as PDF	One long page or Letter, Legal, A4; page breaks between lines; clickable links
Account needed	For cloud, sharing and paid plans	Only for Pro
Data handling (store declaration)	Handles website content; not sold to third parties	Does not collect or use your data; zero network requests
Capture history	In the cloud account	In the browser, free
Editor: shapes, arrows, text, blur, crop	Basic tools free, all tools on paid plans	Free to useSaving an edited capture is Pro
URL and date on the image	Not stated	YesFive styles, free
Evidence stamp with SHA-256 checksum	No	Pro
Batch capture of a URL list	No	Pro
Selectable text in the PDF	Not stated	Pro
Full page capture, free	Yes	Yes
Languages	54	32
Featured badge	Yes	Yes
Users, rating (Chrome Web Store)	4,000,000 · 4.7 from 29.5K	100,000+ · 4.8 from about 1,000
Screen recording	Tab, desktop, camera; WebM or MP4; 720p free, 4K paid	No
Selected area, visible part, desktop capture	Yes	NoWhole page; crop in the editor
Cloud storage and shareable links	Its own cloud; 100 screenshots and 20 recordings free, unlimited paid	Your own Google Drive (Pro), with a view-by-link URL you can copy
Integrations	Jira, Slack, Trello, Asana, GitHub	Google Drive (Pro)
Browsers	Chrome, Edge, Firefox and other browsers	Chrome, Edge, other Chromium browsers
Size	9.15 MiB	2.46 MiB
Paid tier	Basic $5 a month and Professional $6 a month billed yearly ($6 and $8 billed monthly)	Pro, $19 a year; Try Pro: $0 for 7 days; 48-hour guarantee
Maker	Awesome Screenshot (the listing names no legal entity)	Media Edge LLC

The remaining differences, in plain words

Awesome Screenshot records the tab, the desktop or your camera, in WebM or MP4, up to 4K on paid plans; captures a selected area or another application's window; saves to its own cloud and hands you a link; and sends captures to Jira, Slack, Trello, Asana and GitHub. FullPage Capture does not record and has no cloud of its own: you share the file, or with Pro save it to your own Google Drive and copy a view-by-link URL from there. Awesome Screenshot lists Firefox among its browsers; FullPage Capture is for Chromium browsers.

Questions

Is Awesome Screenshot free?

There is a free plan. Screenshots saved to your own computer are unlimited, but the cloud, which is where its sharing lives, is capped at 100 screenshots and 20 recordings at 720p, and the full annotation tools are on the paid plans (Basic $5 a month and Professional $6 a month billed yearly ($6 and $8 billed monthly)). FullPage Capture is free without caps, with the whole editor usable, and needs no account.

Which takes the better full page screenshot?

FullPage Capture. It is built around that one job: inner scrollers unrolled, sticky headers once, lazy-loaded images waited for, PDF files open in Chrome captured, very long pages split cleanly, and a PDF export with page breaks between lines and clickable links. Awesome Screenshot's listing describes full page, area, visible-part and desktop capture, without any of those details.

Does FullPage Capture record the screen?

No. It takes screenshots of web pages and does that completely. Awesome Screenshot records the tab, desktop or camera; if you need recordings, keep a recorder for them and FullPage Capture for the pages.

How do I share a capture without a cloud account?

Copy it to the clipboard and paste it into a chat, a document or an email, or save PNG, JPEG or PDF and attach the file. With Pro, save it to your own Google Drive in one click and copy a view-by-link URL from there; the file stays in your Drive, not in a vendor's cloud.

What do the privacy declarations say?

On the Chrome Web Store, Awesome Screenshot declares that it handles website content, which fits a tool that saves captures to an account. FullPage Capture declares that it does not collect or use your data, and it makes no network requests at all.

Does FullPage Capture work in Firefox?

No, it is for Chrome, Edge and the other Chromium browsers. Awesome Screenshot lists Firefox among its browsers.

Can I keep both?

Yes. They do not interfere, so you can keep a recorder for recordings and use FullPage Capture for every capture that has to be complete or become a PDF.

Ready to try it? Install FullPage Capture free. It runs alongside Awesome Screenshot, so you can compare on your own pages.